Defiance Livestream Q&A Thread! - June 16

[Kinksta]

Are there any plans to adjust Multishot weapons in PvP (such as Blast Rifles, Blast Bolters, etc)? These weapons are the main reason why PvP is unbalanced and making some global changes to said weapons could save Rarnok a lot of work.

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Could you create a slow firing SMG? Right now, there isn't any SMG to match the SAW and Assault Carbine in the whole "High Damage, Low Fire Rate" theme.


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There are quite a few unused weapon models in the game, some of which look pretty good. What is the reason as to why said models never got used?


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Any plans to buff nanoless weapons?

Shows hows rarely you pvp,or just unsure what you're doing, an experienced player beats a br with a shotgun easily, also the only unbalanced things i see are the bio goo detonators/launchers and the caustic venoms. besides that theres serveral weapons that could use a buff. try yourself a br in pvp. they have alot of spread and are probably one of the most lethal close combat but so is a sawed off or slug shotgun and if you gain about 10m distance a smg should beat it.

[Alahali]

The flamethrower Jp for the next event, ty.

[WhiteStrike]

Sawn-offs, with Falloff Barrels, and Sluggers, have been problematic for a long time. When you need something problematic to counter something problematic, you know something's not right.
As for your questioning of my time spent in PvP, I'm sure you in all April 2017 wisdom have spent a lot of time in PvP when compared to me.
The thing is SMGs require much more effort to use than Blast Rifles. Blast Rifles are easy to land hits with and deal a lot of damage, but SMGs need to actually sustain crits in order get a kill, unlike Blast Rifles which just need to spray at the upper torso to get crits. I know this because I myself used Blast Rifles for quite a while, and then I switched to SMGs and the difference was pretty clear.

[Aliasse]

Shows hows rarely you pvp,or just unsure what you're doing, an experienced player beats a br with a shotgun easily, also the only unbalanced things i see are the bio goo detonators/launchers and the caustic venoms. besides that theres serveral weapons that could use a buff. try yourself a br in pvp. they have alot of spread and are probably one of the most lethal close combat but so is a sawed off or slug shotgun and if you gain about 10m distance a smg should beat it.

The days of BR in pvp on PC is over but not for console since controllers and potato aimers.

to dominate pvp you either have to make a creative loadout or something that is unbeatable with little cons.

[Kinksta]

Sawn-offs, with Falloff Barrels, and Sluggers, have been problematic for a long time. When you need something problematic to counter something problematic, you know something's not right.
As for your questioning of my time spent in PvP, I'm sure you in all April 2017 wisdom have spent a lot of time in PvP when compared to me.
The thing is SMGs require much more effort to use than Blast Rifles. Blast Rifles are easy to land hits with and deal a lot of damage, but SMGs need to actually sustain crits in order get a kill, unlike Blast Rifles which just need to spray at the upper torso to get crits. I know this because I myself used Blast Rifles for quite a while, and then I switched to SMGs and the difference was pretty clear.

well i question it because you complain about br's while theres caustics and crap like depravity out there that is all, and i've pvped alot during those few months i played.

[Light Energy]

Please can the coops needed for Chimera contracts etc be made start-able by a single player? This seems to be even more relevant with the recent changes to the Chimera contracts and Cores.

Reason:

Spoiler:

It would be nice to be able to get the majority of contracts done within a 1-2 hour daily Defiance session (without having to ask in zone for help to start them and just giving up in the end; which has been my experience on several occasions [I am not alone judging from the zone chat I see etc]).

Playing with a full group is the ideal (sometimes I wish we could have bigger groups), but not always possible. Doing the coops solo is a bit harder, of course (and takes long with the bosses), but this is preferable than not being able to do them at all.
If others don't have a problem starting the coops, that's cool; but I don't think anyone would mind if the coops were start-able by a single player.

Thanks for this opportunity to ask one or more questions in anticipation of the Q&A live stream.

[crasher]

They could introduce a new storyline where your whole inventory is stolen by Raiders and you have to take the fight to them to regain it.

That might solve some inventory problems and refresh the long for filling chase.

That happened to several friends of mine way back when they first introduced the mass breakdown button to inventory control and forgot to default 'saved' to all existing stuff.

PC/na clan leader Ozz lost everything, for example.
It was a mess.

[crasher]

Are ya'll ever going to fix event majors spawn after the morning reset? As someone who has a life outside of the game, I can only play from 4:30am est - 6:30am est. And you know what happens at 5am on the dot? You guessed it! Server reset! You know what happens then? No more event majors until 7 - 7:30 am! Which means poor saps like myself, who still for some unknown reason pay cash to support this limping game get hosed out of pursuit rewards! Can't kill 500 of anything, let alone even hit a major before work.

I have no clue about other platforms, but PC/na can (rarely) come back from the reset with final stage event majors at ~the half way point to completion.
I never could figure out how that happened.

[punisher2431]

Can you make any of the regular guns look like the ones from defiant few. Or have an event with those looks on the guns

[Cygnus]

Please can the coops needed for Chimera contracts etc be made start-able by a single player? This seems to be even more relevant with the recent changes to the Chimera contracts and Cores.

Reason:

Spoiler:

It would be nice to be able to get the majority of contracts done within a 1-2 hour daily Defiance session (without having to ask in zone for help to start them and just giving up in the end; which has been my experience on several occasions [I am not alone judging from the zone chat I see etc]).

Playing with a full group is the ideal (sometimes I wish we could have bigger groups), but not always possible. Doing the coops solo is a bit harder, of course (and takes long with the bosses), but this is preferable than not being able to do them at all.
If others don't have a problem starting the coops, that's cool; but I don't think anyone would mind if the coops were start-able by a single player.

Thanks for this opportunity to ask one or more questions in anticipation of the Q&A live stream.

Um no, reasons:
this is a social game. Co ops are not intended to solo. Solo co ops would be too easy because the boss threat level would be too low. If you could solo, then people would cry about being kicked from co ops because af farmers would solo, and could easily solo 20+ iols in an hour. Which would make non patrons cry too.Then no one could join co ops with out muting all the solo runners. Make some friends!! Or join a clan with active members or keep watching videos